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In the spirit of releasing funky screenshots (spurred on by Alhexx and the new Ultima...) here's the latest work I've made on the Remake engine. I'll just link to the pictures, they're moderately large. Enjoy!

http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~csuzs/oldsite/field_dec.png

A few more updates to the field module. Finally I've got filtering on *all* the tiles working so no more (well ... almost none :D ) black lines on the backgrounds. Models also have textures working, not that you can really see the faces on this location, unfortunately.

http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~csuzs/oldsite/battle.png

Finally, some graphical display! Not much else to say about this ;)

http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~csuzs/oldsite/zangan1.png
http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~csuzs/oldsite/zangan2.png

...the tool I used to test stuff out...

http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~csuzs/oldsite/Worklog.txt

Worklog from the engine.
 
Stupid Internet Exploiter (won't let me view the .png's!  I downloaded two of the pics and they look great!  Keep up the good work on the remake project.
 
Hmm... looks like Z-fighting due to polygon interpenetration at the edges of the rocks in the zengan2 picture.  Polygons a little too big?
 
I suspect the depth buffer ... it's probably only using a 16-bit depth buffer (this being just a test, I just initialised a 'default' OpenGL window), and I've also probably set the Z range way too large (again, since it was just a test, to make sure it didn't clip anything...). I suspect I could sort it out fairly quickly by playing around with the depth settings. Hardly a priority, of course, I don't really care about bugs in the test programs until they show up in the main game too... ;)

Oh, and well noticed :)
 
Oh yes.. I did peruse your images, I wondered where Aeris and Tifa were on the last image then I realized it was a test program (doh).
I think I saw a bit more detail on Cloud than when using the PSX version of FF7. I assume your program is for the PC version of FF7 :)

Cyb
 
Erg what I ment to say (heh) was that it was for the PC versions data set (mumble).  MIM files.. what are they (scratches head).
 
fice: yay, great work... keep' on that good work.

I just hope I'll be able to work the textures out, so I can tell some new stuff to you ... :D

 - Alhexx
 
I've got *textures* fully working, both on the battle scenes and the models, so that isn't a problem at all ... NeutopiaW's information together with SainT's filetype listing in your battle database and your battle location description, gave me everything I needed for texturing.

*Animations* for the battle models, now, that's something I could do with.... ;)

Cyberman: Yeah, the battle graphics are still in very-early-alpha stage right now, although the loader should display any model fine, so Aeris & Tifa's models could easily be put in; I just didn't bother because, well, not enough else of it works yet...

And yes, it is using the PC files, of course ... although I thought the 3d models were pretty much the same in both. The PC version was less pixellated, of course, simply due to the higher resolution; but the model itself might not be much different, if at all.
 
hm ... bad ... that means that I'm behind ... means I've got a lot of work to do on Ultima...

 - Alhexx
 
Fice: There is maybe something you could add to Zangan:
A button that lets you, once you have loaded a lgp, simply enter the 2byte-code, so you won't have to re-open the lgp everytime you want to change the location.
And maybe another slider that lets you move the viewpoint away from the origin...

 - Alhexx
 
some impressive pics fice
even tho cloud is supersized :)
but if we are gonna look at custom battle scenes, but sort of format is it gonna be in for ur prgram?
 
Alhexx:

The different open button; can do, obviously that's easy.

Moving the camera ... hmm ... yes, of course it *can* be done, just don't expect the location to always look that good ;)  The battle locations are sometimes like theatre props - literally only complete on one side, and viewed from the other angles, they look like hollow shells.... ;)

Guess I'll put the camera movement in anyway. Just don't be surprised by stuff like that ;)

Skillster:

Well, if Ultima can create P files, then you're sorted because battle locations are just textured P files... :D
 
Alhexx:

The different open button; can do, obviously that's easy.

Moving the camera ... hmm ... yes, of course it *can* be done, just don't expect the location to always look that good ;)  The battle locations are sometimes like theatre props - literally only complete on one side, and viewed from the other angles, they look like hollow shells.... ;)

Guess I'll put the camera movement in anyway. Just don't be surprised by stuff like that ;)
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Hmmm any way to add a plugin interface? IE export to a renderer such as POV etc?  Might be cool to export a series of frames from a combat scene into POVray's format (which includes the ability to LOOP and a few other things).

Cyb
 
OK, new version of Zangan uploaded, http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~csuzs/oldsite/Zangan.zip

-Wireframe option (doubleclick background)
-Move around (hold down mouse button)
-Open from LGP button


Cyberman: Hmmm, am I noticing a pattern in your feature requests here? :D

Zangan doesn't as yet support a plugin interface, although a lot of my programs do...although I could easily add one in. I'm guessing you'd like me to?

Although, since Zangan only does the *locations*, I'm not sure how you'd want to export a series of frames...

Nevertheless, an export location to a plugin could be useful. I'll do it.
 
Cyberman: Hmmm, am I noticing a pattern in your feature requests here? :D

Zangan doesn't as yet support a plugin interface, although a lot of my programs do...although I could easily add one in. I'm guessing you'd like me to?

Although, since Zangan only does the *locations*, I'm not sure how you'd want to export a series of frames...

Nevertheless, an export location to a plugin could be useful. I'll do it.
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Yes.. I like to make plugins .. haven't you noticed that? (laughs).

Besides I've only been making lots of DLL's for something ;)

Well each model/person in the scene has a animation sequence attached to them right? (dumb question had to be asked).

Cyb
 
Well each model/person in the scene has a animation sequence attached to them right? (dumb question had to be asked).
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Zangan only displays the *locations* - not the people in it. So all you could export would be a static set of geometry, for the scenery.

Nevertheless, http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~csuzs/oldsite/Zangan110.zip for the latest version ... only real change being the plugin support (all the info needed to write a plugin is including, if you still want to do it).

For people, you need Mirex's Leviathan (see General forum for an announcement today about that), or a program I'm working on - see http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~csuzs/oldsite/dio.png for a screenshot.

However, we don't understand the animation format. We (thanks to Phaeron, I should add) can position the model on its base frame, but not (AFAIK) decode any frames after the first.
 
fice & mirex:
What are Dio and Leviathan goint ot be? Viewers? Or Viewers and Editors?

Since you guys are more up-to-date, maybe I could leave the skeleton-editor to you, huh?

 - Alhexx
 
Dio, I'm aiming to be an editor (although only doing the skeletons, and really just the animations for them). Editing the actual P files I'll leave to Ultima ;)

Leviathan's a more handy viewer for the models, though, what with the lists, etc.
 
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